Session of 2025
HOUSE BILL No. 2040
By Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
Requested by Lynn Retz, Executive Director of the Kansas Corporation
Commission
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AN ACT concerning the state corporation commission; relating to electric
transmission line siting permits; extending the time in which the
commission shall make a final order on an electric transmission line
siting application; amending K.S.A. 66-1,178 and repealing the existing
section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 66-1,178 is hereby amended to read as follows: 66-
1,178. (a) No electric utility may begin site preparation for or construction
of an electric transmission line, or exercise the right of eminent domain to
acquire any interest in land in connection with the site preparation for a
construction of any such line without first acquiring a siting permit from
the commission. Whenever any electric utility desires to obtain such a
permit, the utility shall file an application with the commission setting
forth therein that the utility proposes to construct an electric transmission
line and specifying:
(1) The proposed location thereof;
(2) the names and addresses of the landowners of record whose land
or interest therein is proposed to be acquired in connection with the
construction of or is located within 660 feet of the center line of the
easement where the line is proposed to be located; and
(3) such other information as may be required by the commission.
(b) Upon the filing of an application pursuant to subsection (a), the
commission shall fix a time for a public hearing on such application,
which shall be not more than 90 days after the date the application was
filed, to determine the necessity for and the reasonableness of the location
of the proposed electric transmission line. The commission shall fix the
place for hearing, which shall be in one of the counties through which the
electric transmission line is proposed to traverse.
(c) The commission may conduct an evidentiary hearing on an
application filed pursuant to this section at such time and place as the
commission deems appropriate.
(d) The commission shall issue a final order on the application within
120 180 days after the date the application was filed.
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Sec. 2. K.S.A. 66-1,178 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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